“Skating on the Mill Pond” by Grandma Moses (She knew!)
I wouldn’t trade my middle-class, 1950s childhood for all the tea in China. I certainly wouldn’t trade it for what passes for childhood now.
But the woods have been hewn down and paved over, the swamp and stream filled in so they could build more condos, the palatial estate so thoroughly erased that only a very few of us remember it ever existed–oh, fap! to all that. We do remember!
You can’t tell us “There is no sun.”
I do so love this painting! ‘They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.’ Sad that such pleasures should now be “nostalgic” – so soon?
All in my own lifetime–they’ve gotten rid of almost every place I ever knew.
Who’s they? Why, Democrats, of course–you know, the party that loves and protects the environment [sardonic laughter break].
Democrats then: “You have to sign it to read it.” Democrats now: “We have to break it so we can fix it.”
It really is horrific. I’m fortunate to live in a neighborhood where things haven’t changed much, since The Flood, but there are few such places left. I know that visits to my hometown are somewhat shocking and visiting other places I have lived are striking because of all the change. Meanwhile, the “Loving Left”, protectors of the earth, are hastily turning everywhere into Southern California as fast as possible. I spent a week in LA, just last November and can attest that it has become a living hell.
They protect the earth like locusts protect crops.
Quite true.
Does it still freeze over where you live now? If not, it is climate change and we are all going to die.
It all got paved over first.
That’s right! There IS a sun, and there’s Aslan too! Thankfully He can’t be paved over.
What a beautiful picture